{"id":58691,"date":"2019-08-16T20:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58691"},"modified":"2019-08-16T20:10:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:10:43","slug":"effa-manley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58691","title":{"rendered":"Effa Manley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Effa Manley<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Ebbets Field Flannels<\/a>
\n2019<\/p>\n

Joe Swide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nc. 1938. Wonderful image of Effa<\/a> in a dress and wearing a Newark Eagles<\/a> ball cap while being instructed on how to hold a bat by one of her players.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The most powerful woman in baseball<\/em><\/p>\n

In the summer of 1947, the most powerful woman in baseball received a call from Bill Veeck<\/a>, the owner of the Cleveland Indians<\/a>. Veeck had spent the last five years scouting the Negro Leagues<\/a> for the right ballplayer to integrate the American League<\/a> and shortly after the Brooklyn Dodgers<\/a> of the National League<\/a> had broken baseball\u2019s color line by acquiring Jackie Robinson<\/a> from the Kansas City Monarchs<\/a>, Veeck set his eyes on Larry Doby<\/a> of the Newark Eagles<\/a>. However, whereas the Dodgers managed to acquire Robinson without paying a cent to the Monarchs, Veeck found himself in a very different sort of negotiation with the owner of the Eagles, Effa Manley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Manley was born into a biracial family in Philadelphia<\/a> in 1897. Her mother was a white seamstress who was married to a black man but had an affair with her white employer, leading many to believe that he was Manley\u2019s biological father. In any case, Manley was raised in a predominantly black community with a biracial identity like that of her siblings, and her ability to pass as either black or white<\/a> enabled her to navigate both sides of the country\u2019s racial divide…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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